Doing Good Quotes - Page 6

• My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

  Al Franken

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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• I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Dad, Self Esteem

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• Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Progress, Action, Welfare

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• Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

  Brandon Lee

  Live Your Life, Leaving, Immortality

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• I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

  Holly Madison

  Daughter, Mother, Real

  "Holly Madison: Boyfriend Pasquale Rotella and I Are 'Wackos,' Have Pretend Conversations With Our Baby 'All the Time'". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. January 26, 2013.

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• More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Responsibility, Impact

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• The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

  Brandy Norwood

  Children, Kids, Helping Others

  "Brandy named international youth spokesperson for UNICEF". www.mtv.com. July 29, 1999.

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• Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Hats, Gray

  "The Many Hats of Sean Parker" by Eric Blattberg, www.wired.com. June 22, 2011.

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• So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

  Amy Poehler

  Construction Workers, People, Giving

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• O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

  Samuel Richardson

  Envy, Rich, Godlike

  Samuel Richardson, Pamela (fict.name.) (1811). “Pamela; or, Virtue rewarded”, p.281

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• The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

  Patti Smith

  Issues, Feminist, Movement

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mistake, Sleep, Night

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.

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• The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Big Families, Gathering

  "Isn’t She Deneuvely?". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. December 2008.

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• People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've doing something awful. And your life is changed forever.

  Matt de la Pena

  Baby, Thinking, Feet

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• I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

  John Green

  Humility, Hard Work, Class

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• Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Encouragement

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw Business as Usual”, p.1, Random House

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• The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

  Paula Fox

  Conscious, Minutes

  "A qualified optimist" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2003.

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• There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Samuel Butler

  Evil, May

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• God will not turn away from doing you good. He will keep on doing good. He doesn't do good to His children sometimes and bad to them other times. He keeps on doing good and He never will stop doing good for ten thousand ages of ages. When things are going bad that does not mean God has stopped doing good. It means He is shifting things around to get them in place for more good, if you will go on loving Him.

  John Piper

  Children, Mean, Age

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.181, Multnomah

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Hippie, Knows

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 15 June 2008

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• Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Kindness, Men, Service Culture

  Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Charity, Pay

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.33

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• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Bridges, Rivers

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.332, Penguin

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